Plow.



F. E. DAVIS.

lLOW.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 1B, 1913.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

FRANK E. DAVIS, F LA GROSSE, WISCONSI, ASSIGN TO LA GROSSE PLOW C0., 0F LA GROSSE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

PLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Application med october 1s, 19.13. serial Nb. 795,866.

To all whom/t may concern.'

Be r1t known that I, FRANK E. Davis,

, a resident of La Crosse, in the county of La' Crosse and State of Visconsin, havezinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows, of 'which the followingis a itull, clear, and exact description. l

The invention relates to plows and more particularly to 'gage-wheel mounts whereby the plow beam can be raised and lowered.

The invention designs to provide an improvedconnection between a slidable gage wil-reel standard and the plow. beam which permits the wheel to caster a limited extent .or between the beam pivot and said wheel in raising and lowering` the plow so that the wheel will not be operated longitudinally or dragged on the ground in shifting th'e plow, and thus to lessen the power required to raise the plow. l

The invention `further designs to' pro-vide a castering gage-wheel mountf'of improved construction'. y

v The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined. by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 isa side eleval tion of a plow embodying the invention, the

frame being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a plan of the connection betweenthe gagewheel standard and the beam. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section throughv the gage-wheel standard'and its guide. Fig. 4.is a section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.'

The invention is shown as applied to a tractor plow comprising a frame 10 which is sustained by'carryingwheels in any suitable -manner, as well understood in the art. The plow beam 11 is pivoted at its front end, as at '12, so that its rear end may be raised and lowered. The plowshare 13 is secured to a standard 14 which is suitably connected to the beam 11. The beam comprises two bars 11 between which standard 14 is held.

The gagewheel 14 is journaled at the rear end of .bifurcated arm 15 which has its liront end bolted to a bracket 116. Bracket 16 1s secured to the lower end of a standard 17 which is slidably mounted in a guide-bracket 18 which is bolted, as at 18a, to the outer l.

sideof one of the beam members-11, The power operated lifting mechanism com prises a shaiit 19, an arm 22 which is pivoted on sai-d shaft, a link 24 which is pivoted to said arm at 25, an elbow-lever 26 which is pivpted fto the plow-beam at 27 and has one of its arms .pivoted to the link Q4 at 28 and Y its other arm pivoted at 29 to a supporting link A30 which has its `low-er end pivotally connected to bracket 16. Operation of link 24 in one 'direction will shift the selbow lever to raise its fulcrnm and the beam under guidance of link 30. Movement of the .link rearwardly will cause the plow beam and plow carried thereby to be flowered. The construction lodi the .power operated devices for operating link E24 forms no part of .the present invention so that a more 'complete illustration and description are not deemed necessary.

In practice, iis desirable that gagewheels, particularly in tractor plows, shall have a limited castering movement to lessen the draft of the plow and for this purpose standard 17 is I'formed with straight or flat sides and bea-ring edges 17a and 17 b, and the guide-socket or channel 40`in bracket 18 is narrow at its front and wide at its rear and has -flared sides 41 which will permit the flat standard 17 to Ihave a limited pivotal movement. The front edge'li'a of bar 17 is curved to pivotally seat against the front bearing surface 40*L of socket 40 and the opposite or rear surface .40h of said socket is curved to permit the` standard to caster, and so that as the bar 17 c'asters it will be held against fore and att `play in the socket. The rear edge 17 b ofbar 17 is curved to fit a'ainst the surface 4?? so that the bar 17 will he free to slide and will be snugly held .against fore and aftmovement in the guide 18. This construction of standard and guide is simple and provides for a limited turning of the standard and overcomes in great measure the friction :resulting from employment of a round standard and correspondingly shaped guide or bearing, because of the narrow bearing surfaces and the avoidance of `contact between the flat sides of the standard and the `guide, except when the standard is at the 'limit of its rotation in one direction. The narrow curved seat 40a serves also. to coniine the standard against lateral tilting in the guide, and oiiers little resistance to i v limit the caster movement, the flared sides of the guide serving as stops. By limiting the castering movement Aof the gage-wheel, as described and shown, swivel connections for supporting link are unnecessary, a little looseness in its pivotal connections suiiicing to permit all the cast'ering movement desired. Y

In practice, it has been customary to form the guide so that the gage-wheel standard willA slide at approximately right angles to the beam. lIn lieu of doing this, the axis of guide channel 40 and standard 17 is disposed at an angle of less than' 90 from the plowbeam, and to such an extent that the point of conta-ctV of 'the gage-wheel will remain in substantially constant relation to the 'pointl 'at which the plow-beam is pivoted to the frame during thc raisingand lowering of the beam. This construction results in facilitating the operation of raising and lowering,.by avoiding' thel necessity of moving the gage-wheel longitudinally to any substantial extent, so that less power will be required to raise and lower the beam. .The invention thus provides a gage wheel mount which very much lessens binding of the standard in the bracket in which it slides, or friction between them, and in lessening the power required to shift the plow.

The invention is not to b e restricted to the details Iset forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claims without de artino from the s irit and sco ie of the invention'.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,- and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, isz-- l. In a plow, the combination with a plow beam, a plowshare carried by the beam and means for raisingthe beam, of a 'gage-wheel, a lstandard to whiclnthe gage-wheel is connected, having a bearing'edge, and a guide for slidably connecting the beam and standard, having a pivotal seat for said edge and .formed to permit the standard vto swing about said seat.

2. In a plow,'the combination with a plow beam, a plowshare carried by the beam and ,means for raising the beam, of a gage-wheel, a standard to which the' gage-wheel is connected, having bearing edges at its front and Y rear, and a guide for slidably connecting the beam and standard having a pivotal seat for one of said edges Aand a laterally extending bearing surface for the other edge to per'- mit the standard to swing about its bearing on the pivotal seat.

.3. In a plow, the combination with a plow beam, of a plowshare carried by the beam and means for raising the beam, of a gagewheel, a standard to which the gage-wheel is connected, having bearing edges at its front necting the standard and beam, having av seat for pivotall'y holding one of the bearing edges of the standard, a bearing for the other edge of the standard and flared sides which permit the other bearing edge to move laterally in the guide.

5. In a plow, the combination with a plow beam, of a plowshare ,carried by the beam and means `for raising the beam, of a gagewheel, a standard to which the gage-wheel is connected, having substantially Hat sides and bearing edges at its front and rear and a guide having a seatfor pivotally holding one of the bearing edges-of the standard, flared sides which limit the pivctal movement of the standard, and a bearing surface for the opposite bearing edge of the standard formed to permit the latter edge to move laterally.

6. In a plow, the combination of a frame, a beam pivotedto the frame, a plow carried by the beam, a gage-wlieel and a slidable connection between the wheel and the beam, comprising a guide having the axis Vof its sliding movement angled acutely and forwardly below the beam.

7 In a plow, the combination of a frame, a beam pivoted to the frame, a plcw carried \by the beam, a gage-wheel and a slidabie connection between the beam and the gage-wheel comprising a standard and a guide, the axis of the standard being angled acutely and forwardly below the beam.

S. In a plow, the combination cf a frame, a. 'beam pivoted to the frame, a plow carried by the beam, a gage-wheel and a slidable connection between the beam and the gage-v wheel comprising a standard and a guide, the axis of the standardbeing angled acutely forwardly below the beam. the standard being pivotally movable in the guide.

FRAK E. DAVIS.- VVitnesses I-I. W. ROBINSON, A. J. BRUHA.

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